Saturday 26 October 2013

People Central on Mental Testing and Recruitment

By Colin James


People Central Limited is a Hawkes Bay company concentrating on psychometric testing and assessment. A common customer will be an employer that is needing to hire a staff member.

"The employer either brings us in at the beginning of the process or, due to a niggling feeling that they're missing something, we come in at the end", announces Steve Evans, Director and Creator of People Central. "Having an impartial third party on the selection panel provides great insight for the employer, specifically when the third party is qualified in psychometric testing!".

In Evans experience, most companies hire someone based on their capacity, and fire them on the grounds of their personality, typically at material finance expense to the employer and emotional cost to the employee. Evans announces "Psychometric testing falls into two main categories, personality questions measure facets of personality and ability tests measure intellectual and reasoning capability. When referring to recruitment, ability testing is glorious for working out if an applicant has the core capabilities necessary for greatness in a job. Many bosses don't realise that it is a proven fact that interviews and reference checks alone don't make the grade when talking of determining someone's ability to accomplish the job. "

The kinds of psychometric testing People Central recommend would be peculiar to the job, but Evans asserts that a standard capability test would cover: oral and numeral reasoning, abstract reasoning, clerical accuracy and ability to check, business proficiency, and technical capacity. Personality tests identify applicants whose behavior aligns with behaviors associated with pre-eminence in a particular business. When undertaking psychometric testing for personality, the following factors can be identified: whether a candidate is likely to price and support a business culture, competencies and hopes; how they are probably to have interaction with team-mates, clients, and providers; and how they are probably going to handle the stresses and strains of the job.As for that paltry feeling, Evans understands that employers can feel that they are in a steam cooker situation, "Regularly there is a cut-off point approaching, and a fair quantity of work to be done, otherwise employers feel that there's a low pool of abilities available locally. "

Evans urges companies to bring in a professional to undertake psychometric testing, he says "The result will be invaluable for the employer".




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